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Clarity comments on What makes buying insurance rational? - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: rayalez 31 March 2016 08:50PM

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Comment author: Clarity 01 April 2016 01:02:33AM 0 points [-]

Simply, it's not a zero value equation.

Just because insurance companies have a positive expected utility, doesn't mean you will have a negative expected utility.